Honour Crime or not?

Three beautiful girls and their step mother’s bodies were found submerged in a car in the Rideau Canal off Kingston, Ontario. Charged and convicted at trial were their parents and brother. At the trial, the Crown successfully used expert evidence of “honour killing” as the motive. The defence has appealed the decision and asked for a new trial arguing such expert testimony amounted to cultural profiling and was therefore more prejudicial than probative. Let us see how the Court of Appeal for Ontario rules. This will be precedent setting for “honour” crimes.

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Latha Sukumar is a lawyer and social entrepreneur whose crowning moment was winning a National Award from the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund in April 2010, for being one of 15 lawyers in Canada who has advanced the equality rights of women.
An advocate for the rights of new comers, Latha has served on a number of community boards and she has spoken in the media, before legislative committees and at public gatherings on victim rights issues. Besides being a social entrepreneur, Latha is an avid blogger, a yoga teacher and Vipassana meditator.
Latha believes that new discoveries about us are necessary to be applied to grow our life and work and she loves creating and participating in entrepreneurial opportunities.